Consulting/Principal Software Engineer
About The Position
LexisNexis USA Consulting/Principal Software Engineer Venture III, 900 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606 (formerly 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606) JOB DESCRIPTION: Develop and lead large multifunctional software development activities, solve complex technical problems, write complex code for computer systems, provide assistance and input to management, and serve as a senior source of expertise. Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources with respect to software development. Provide design input across a software product. Operate in various software development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.). Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues. Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize software requirements. Provide sizing or budget recommendations to management. Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of software system components of moderate complexity. Complete complex bug fixes. Design and work with complex data models across multiple data storage subsystems. Mentor or lead more junior software developers on development methodologies and optimization techniques. Perform other duties as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field required.
- 7 years of experience in job offered or related occupations required.
- 7 years of experience: using Search Engines (Solr, ElasticSearch, or comparable), inverted indices, and improvement of Search Relevance through the user of Boosting Signals, Machine Learning, or other associated mechanisms
- Utilizing AWS Cloud Computing Technologies to estimate and size hardware environments for capacity, scalability, and cost, as well as to implement services on AWS hardware and serverless
- Using Apache Solr for Sharding, Inverted Index, and tuning for index/memory size versus latency
- Using DevOps Tools and Technologies on Containerization, Jenkins Pipelines and CI/CD, to assess and troubleshoot memory and CPU utilization
- Enhancing search retrieval performance through advanced performance engineering techniques and monitoring tools such as Splunk and Datadog
- Developing interactive search user interfaces using the Micro Frontend (MFE) architecture with Angular and Microsoft technologies
- Building containerized data pipelines using Python and Language models to efficiently index data for search
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead large multifunctional software development activities
- Solve complex technical problems
- Write complex code for computer systems
- Provide assistance and input to management
- Serve as a senior source of expertise
- Serve as a primary technical point of contact for external technology resources with respect to software development
- Provide design input across a software product
- Operate in various software development environments (Agile, Waterfall, etc.)
- Serve as acknowledged “go to” person on coding and technical issues
- Interface with other technical personnel or team members to finalize software requirements
- Provide sizing or budget recommendations to management
- Write and review portions of detailed specifications for the development of software system components of moderate complexity
- Complete complex bug fixes
- Design and work with complex data models across multiple data storage subsystems
- Mentor or lead more junior software developers on development methodologies and optimization techniques
- Perform other duties as needed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
